I know, I know, I’m going to lose the war on flip-flops (people love them), but common! This is just wrong.

Hotflops (previously featured in my post “Hotflops a fashion not!“) has a new wacky scheme up its leg.

Now you can wear your favorite presidential candidate proudly on your tootsies for $30. It’s called, “Flop the Vote,” and although I’m mildly amused, I’m mostly afraid that I’ll encounter someone clad in these at the mall. Is running errands with 20 or so shrunken heads of the would-be president bobbing across your ten little piggies dignified? And what would John and Barack think of being immortalized on flip-flops. Aren’t they both working hard to dodge any flip-flopping labels?

By the way, the HotFlop folks are tallying “votes,” i.e. purchases and Obama has the dubious distinction of being ahead in the flip-flop polls. It’s just all so frivolous, but I wonder if it’s actually bad. Something tells me that seeing your favorite candidate mingling with toes is not really a strong platform for a serious presidential candidate, but maybe they are right about all exposure being good exposure. It’s clearly suspect.

I asked my most opinionated fashion-focused friend, Jeigh Singleton, who heads Washington University fashion design school, and he just had three words, “tacky, tacky, tacky.”

For other politically dubious fashion check out the “McCain is my homeboy,” shirts at cafepress.com and the “Obama says knock you out” shirt selection at UrbanOutfitters.com.

We have a slide show linked to today’s news story, “Flip-flopping candidates? No, candidates on flip flops.”